RE: NAPTR and CPIM

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ext Jonathan Rosenberg [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Saturday, November 16, 2002 7:58 AM
> To: Khartabil Hisham (NMP/Helsinki)
> Cc: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: NAPTR and CPIM
> 
> 
> 
> 
> [email protected] wrote:
>  > In the current CPIM draft, it mentions that
>  >
>  > "To process an IM URI, a lookup is performed for SRVs for 
> the target
>  > domain and a desired IM transfer protocol"
>  >
>  > Should the "desired" transfer protocol be a choice of the 
> terminating
>  > side? If so, should NAPRT be used?
> 
> We went through a long, grueling discussion on NAPTR or not, 
> quite some 
> time back.
> 
> In the end, we decided we really didnt need most of what it could 
> provide, and so we settled on the current algorithm. I am sure the 
> details are somewhere in the archives.
> 
> That algorithm has the recipient place records for each IM transport 
> they support. The sender then selects amongst those which are 
> available.

How does the sender find out what's available? That's the question.

/Hisham

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